What should my 1 year olds eating habits be

[moomin35]

Will my LO definitely be off 5 bottles of milk a day by one year old and three solid meals? Is this with snacks inbetween?

Impossible to say! I didn't do snacks until after 1 yr old as my DS would eat a lot at mealtimes, and would also breastfeed a couple of times during the day. Snacks didn't seem particularly urgent to introduce. I would imagine that if she's eating a reasonable amount 3 times a day, then the number of milk feeds would probably reduce.

Is there a particular reason that you're asking?

At 12 months we had

6.30 cup of milk
7 bowl of porridge and some fruit
10ish a snack of rice cake or breads ticks
12.30 lunch - beans on toast, omelette, packed lunch, yoghurt and fruit to finish
3 a snack of rice cake or breadstick/fruit
4.45 dinner ( ratatouille and cousin cousin, spag bol, casserole and yogurt/fruit to finish
6.30 cup of milke

The current advice is a minimum of 300ml of full fat cows milk a day between 1 and 2 and to ditch the bottles. You should also be offering 3 meals and 2 snacks.

I think though that this is something to aspire to rather than be a definite at 12 months

Dairy intake doesn't have to be milk - cheese and enriched bread count - a slice of Best of Both has half a 1 yr old's daily recommended intake.

At 12 months DD was having bf first thing, a weetabix with milk for breakfast, early lunch of toast with cream cheese with fruit, mid afternoon snack of banana or fruit toast, dinner would be whatever we were having with a yoghurt after. Then water at bedtime. Milk and water were offered all day and definitely with meals.

I have a 12 month old and he has

6oz bottle of cows milk first thing
breakfast (toast or porridge and fruit)
sometimes a snack
lunch (tuna pasta and tomatoes and cucumber today)
sometimes a snack
tea (chicken goujon, mashed potato and half a corn cob today, followed by a handful of grapes)
6oz bottle at bedtime

Anything it was the nhs guidelines I was quoting. The enriched bread will have calcium, but it won't provide baby with the protein and fat that milk does. Also, I think that the only bread recommended for babies is white bread?

a mix of white and wholegrain foods is fine, they just shouldn't have a fully wholegrain diet until age 5 so Best of Both and other breads would be fine.

The 300mls guideline does not all have to be in drink form and other dairy products and calcium sources would count too.

I've never seen it only quoted in amount of milk only Jilted. Always with options for other foods with high calcium. At 18 months I don't think I get 300mls of any liquid into DD each day

The best of both recommendation came from an NHS paediatric dietician. Yes, I believe brown bread is not recommend (particularly for bf babies) because it can fill them up too much, but best of both isn't fully brown, and is fine in appropriate quantities for toddlers with varied diets.

Children between the ages of one and three need to have around 350mg of calcium a day. About 300ml of milk (just over half a pint) would provide this

nhs says the above and links the amount of milk to the calcium you can get from it. This calcium can be found in other foods too.

Why particularly for breastfed babies? Surely it's hard to digest regardless of what milk they have?

Generally I avoid shop bread for babies due to the salt content though.

At a year mine had 3 meals plus morning and bedtime milk.

Keturah I think it's to do with how there's so little waste in breastmilk, and the fibre in the brown bread can cause it to go through their system too quickly. The fibre compounds the speed the breastmilk goes through.

What do you mean by so little waste with breastmilk?

Peanut butter according to a chap on radio 4 today. Please do check this out first though please.

Some bf babies don't poo for days and days, and this is entirely normal. Hence little waste.

(I've ordered one of these for next time. My last baby filled her nappy at every feed until about 4 months, and at least once a day since.)

To be honest, I know I read about bf babies and wholemeal bread when I weaned her last Spring but I can't find anything online about it. I promise I haven't made it up

My 14mo's day looks like this:

7am: 7oz bottle
8am: breakfast cereal
10/11am: rice cakes/biscotti if we're out
12-1pm: lunch
3pm: post-nap bottle of 5ozs milk
5pm: dinner
6.30pm: 7ozs bottle of milk

I am at that stage of trying loads of different beakers/cups in an effort to wean off the bottle, but he's having none of it sigh. He's my last though, so I'm pretty relaxed (he only has the bottle to bolt his milk down, not prolonged contact, and we brush his teeth twice a day).

He's been doing this since 12mo I'd say.

The not pooing for days thing isn't about little waste so much as a slow digestive system though is it?

everything I have read says it is more to do with breastmilk being easier absorbed with less waste than formula so leading to fewer poos.

It can be normal for them to go 7 days or more without a bowel movement without being considered constipated.

I think it's what Demented said

But some breastfed babies poo every feed - so does some breastmilk have waste and others doesn't?

I don't know. I'm not an expert - just a mum who bf and is a few months ahead of the OP. I was just offering some friendly advice to a question posed by a fellow parent

Would they be feeding themselves at 12 months peso I still spoon feed him?

Argh typo! Or would I still be feeding him?

Also I'm still using weaning spoons (he's 9 months), should I be using a different type by now?